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Monthly Archives: January 2014
a happy little story
so last saturday i picked ballerina daughter up from rehearsal and she informed me that i need to buy her a black formal dress for our studio fund raiser this weekend. wait. huh? well, its not like it’s required but … Continue reading
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Tagged ballet, Dance, fundraiser, little black dress, nunnbetter dance theatre
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thoughts on placement and the third leg theory
i have recently been re-reading (okay, well occasionally randomly thumbing through) gretchen ward warren’s brilliant book “the art of teaching ballet – ten twentieth century masters”. (i have read this cover to cover more than once over the past several … Continue reading
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Tagged ballet, ballet books, ballet placement, Dance, gabriela darvash, teaching ballet, the art of teaching ballet, third leg
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dancers i have fallen in love with via youtube but never seen live (volume six)
~ dinu tamazlacaru ~ (staatsballet, berlin) well, i had never actually heard of dinu tamazlacaru until i started obsessively watching iana salenko videos. iana and dinu seem to dance together frequently and i eventually found myself quite drawn to him as well as … Continue reading
fog
i have gone a little overboard taking pictures in the amazingly awesome fog we’ve been having recently. here are some of my favorites : ) (click to enlarge)
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Tagged architecture, cemetery, fog, photography, rockalnd psychiatric center, train, train tracks
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bonus video from vail dance fest! oh happy me!
i’m at the gym and have just finished on the elliptical so i turn on my phone to select some music for the rest of my workout. my phone kindly alerts me that i have facebook notifications so i figure i might … Continue reading
the fine art of shazamming
okay, so sometimes i’ll be driving home from the studio (or wherever) and a delightful piece of music will come on classical radio wqxr and i’ll think “oh, this could potentially be something awesome to choreograph!” but of course i … Continue reading
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Tagged apps, ballet, Choreography, Dance, iphone, iphone apps, justin bieber, music, shazam
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ice ice baby
this morning, while the rest of my lazy family was still asleep, i decided to drive down to piermont and take a stroll on the pier. it was a little bit chilly. (click to enlarge – they look cooler) … Continue reading
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Tagged ballet, Dance, hudson river, ice, nature, nina novak, nunnbetter dance theatre, photography, piermont, snow, winter
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2013 …….. you may go.
2013 – i bid you farewell. (and don’t hit yourself with the door on the way out.) while 2013 involved many wonderful, unforgettable moments it also involved a period of several months earlier in the year that i would not … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, american ballet theatre, ballet, Dance, happy new year
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